AmberFin iCR can increase revenues, save money and save time…
Did you know?
- AmberFin iCR, with four-time Emmy-award winning technology, plays a key role in turning the content you have into the content your customers want.
- AmberFin iCR is an open standards, future proof platform that digitizes and transforms new and archived content, delivering the best quality pictures at smaller file sizes across multiple delivery platforms.
- AmberFin maximizes the value of film and video content, from capture through to distribution, increasing revenues, reducing costs, saving time and eliminating incompatibility issues.
- With 100s of systems in the field, AmberFin iCR is trusted by some of the most prestigious content owners and providers in the world such as Sony, NBA, Turner Broadcasting, BT, Channel 4, RTM and Warner Brothers to manage the digitization and repurposing of their content.
Why buy AmberFin iCR?
AmberFin iCR visibly leads the market by ensuring content owners increase revenues, save money and same time. Below are a number of proof points that demonstrate why your business cannot afford to be without AmberFin iCR.
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| AmberFin iCR has enabled its customers to digitize over 600,000 media assets, allowing them to move into new emerging business markets with their content | X | ||
| With over 100,000 different combinations of video, audio and file formats in the market, AmberFin iCR eliminates incompatibility barriers and easily creates content for customers in any format as required | X | ||
| AmberFin iCR enables content owners to tap into the value of archived content by repurposing it for new distribution platforms. Over 100 hours of high end episodic archived content can generate up to $20 million when delivered to users over new channels including the internet and small screen devices | X | ||
| AmberFin iCR has enabled Turner Broadcasting to successfully switch over 100 million homes to a new streamlined network on their flagship TBS and Cartoon Network channels | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR has a number of unique features available that generate additional revenue opportunities including Dynamic Reframing. This provides the ultimate user experience for viewing sports content on small screen devices | X | ||
| AmberFin iCR has the best HDTV in the market globally, ensuring new HD revenue opportunities are exploited to their full potential | X | X | |
| If used to encode 100,000 hours of tape, AmberFin iCR would save up to 1800sq meters of physical tape storage | X | ||
| AmberFin iCR can reduce distribution costs by up to 85% when compared to traditional videotape delivery methods | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR can reduce the equivalent quality file size by as much as 25%, meaning less distribution bandwidth is required and more users can be accommodated | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR helps save on human resources through automation. Running 24/7 automated operations with a single operator can reduce staff costs by as much as 75%, meaning they can be allocated elsewhere in the business | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR saves on human resources and improves workflow by performing unique concurrent processing, including encoding, proxy generation, QC, transcoding and asset management operations | X | X | |
| By working with a major sports franchise, AmberFin iCR has enabled high-reliability, frame-accurate HD ingest and repurposing to and from commodity storage; this saves substantial budget on video server investment | X | ||
| AmberFin iCR generates the best quality master, to ensure the best quality output for any delivery platform | X | X | X |
| AmberFin iCR's multi-versioning functionality means that only one master file needs to be created, maximizing the efficiency of producing all revenue generating deliverables | X | X | X |
| AmberFin iCR's multi-versioning functionality means that only one master file needs to be created, drastically reducing asset storage and increasing network efficiency | X | X | X |
| AmberFin iCR is the only platform that allows creation of a master once in a single process; this increases throughput, reducing errors and decreasing operator time | X | X | X |
| AmberFin iCR has a unique quality control functionality that saves time by tracking down quality issues earlier in the process; up to 40% of problems originate as early as the mastering stage | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR can replace 2 VTRs and cut operational time by up to 50% for operations such as SD and HD conversions | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR offers an automated ingest solution for Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid editing systems, which allows for significant time and cost savings for creative staff and equipment usage | X | X | |
| With market-leading speed and efficiency, a single AmberFin iCR can convert up to 100 hours of content in 24 hours | X | ||
| AmberFin customers have found that iCR reduces asset management integration time by up to 80% | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR's Quality Control can increase operational efficiency (human resources and time) by up to 400% | X | X | |
| One of the world's leading content owners has mandated AmberFin iCR as their only ingest system, ensuring repeatable quality & reliability | X | ||
| AmberFin iCR has enabled broadcasters to meet their technical and legal obligations for captioning, ensuring no fines are incurred | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR enables file based standards conversion for international programme exchange, reducing conversion time and costs vs. tape-based operations | X | X | |
| AmberFin iCR ensures business flexibility for broadcast playout by converting between different server brands on the market | X | X | |